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Since ancient times, people have sought to decorate their homes with plants. He, feeling himself one with the whole of nature, carried her particle to her house. Appealed to the plants for healing. But the desire was more intuitive. Currently, scientists have established that in addition to aesthetic properties, plants have another useful function – indoor plants improve the air composition and clean the atmosphere. The urban environment is far from ideal. In addition to the usual dust, often the…

He prefers an apple to an apple. Watermelon instantly exchanges for a plate of vermicelli. It will be fun to crackle cracker, but the offer to crackle the cucumber curls and convincingly depicts disgust. Oranges should not be offered at all. And how to shove vitamins into this baby? It’s good, if the chudushko according to the beautiful colored vitamins from the box. It’s even better if he does not have allergies to these vitamins. And if they do not…

You can grow a date palm tree each. This year, on the holiday of May 9, I with my students came up with and prepared original “green souvenirs” to veterans of the war. I bought several packages of wonderful tasty dates in the store. The guys for both cheeks, in a moment, destroyed all my purchases, not knowing what we have to do with the bones. And we buried them, planting them vertically in deep clay pots with moist sand…

Even the most unprepossessing and dull room will be greatly transformed if several indoor plants are placed in its interior. And indeed, flowers have an amazing attractive force. They bring warmth and comfort to our house, create a positive mood, help overcome the negative and the tension that has accumulated in us for the day. The art of phytodesign (ennobling rooms with indoor plants and natural materials) is very popular today. Not only the house, but also the office rarely…

Pineapple is a perennial herbaceous fruit plant of the bromeliad family. Its homeland is semi-arid regions in the northeast of South America, Brazil, Guyana, Paraguay. Currently grown in many tropical countries, and in the Netherlands, he learned to grow in greenhouses. Pineapple is a thermophilic, photophilous and drought-resistant plant. Its linear leaves are assembled into a rosette, they reach a length of 90 cm, they are rigid, usually with spines along the edges. Inflorescence on a fleshy pedicel, simple, from…

The cactus is a disillusioned cucumber in life. From observations of the pessimist. If you already have a lot of plants, and you have not decided on a pet, it’s time to think about … a home cactus. Scientists have found a cacti gene present in leafy so that evolutionarily cactus is a plant that has undergone some adaptation to natural conditions. In general, such a disappointed in his life cucumber, but because he fenced off from the world with…

It is necessary to be treated under the supervision of a doctor. If you decide to be treated with medicinal plants, then under the supervision of a phytotherapeutist. But just like in your home medicine cabinet there is aspirin, so there must be medicinal plants. Stock up with some of them, like memories of summer, to maintain strength, and first aid. Do not rush to take the pill for ailments, first brew the grass. Surely you will find all of…

Red hand, black sheet, green fingers … No, no, it’s not about these nightmares from the pioneer camp. In life, there are things more terrible – for example, the window sill of an inept florist. Yes, you yourself probably for several times had the opportunity to observe this squalor – one and a half stunted cactus, a naked stick of unknown origin with two yellowing leaves at the end, a long rod of lemon grown from a stone and a…

I met a neighbor recently returning from the market. – Look at the exotic things I bought. Do not you know what it is? – shows me the medium-sized dark green oblong fruits in the sachet. – Of course, I know, this is feijoa. Very tasty and important, useful. – And what is useful? – I’ll tell you about it. We stood with her on the porch, breathed air, talked about tasty and healthy food. And I want to offer…

Healing properties of this “Siberian pineapple” have been known since ancient times in Tibetan, Chinese and Mongolian medicine. Seabuckthorn is a very good name for this plant, you can not say more precisely, because its fruits on very short stems really sit very tightly on the branches, as if stuck to them. They have a pleasant sweet and sour taste and a peculiar flavor remotely resembling pineapple. Therefore, sea buckthorn is sometimes called northern, or Siberian pineapple. But the botanical,…